🧬 Open-Source Sustainability
This is a follow-up post to Lessons Learnt from Open-Source. Maintainer burnout is real. I haven’t been active on open-source for quite a few months now. A...
📚 Book Notes: Prisoners of Geography
This is a good primer on geography and politics. It’s not meant to be read in one sitting; the information can be overwhelming! Keep a map handy for better...
⏩️ Speed Consuming
Let’s start with an exercise. Last week, how many hours of content did you watch on YouTube? Hint: Go to the YouTube app on your phone, tap your profile, and...
📚 Book Notes: Digital Minimalism
Skip the first half! The second half has practical advice to incorporate into your life. I’ve already been doing most of them hence the short post. Here are...
♠️ Bridge Shuffle
Last weekend, I stumbled upon a bridge shuffling tutorial. It looked pretty dope and after watching the video, it seemed easy to pull off as well. I tried it...
📚 Book Notes: Homo Deus
After reading Sapiens last year, I was looking forward to reading this - another thought-provoking one from Harari! Here are my notes from Homo Deus: The...
🔍️ Seek the Context behind the Advice
You might have heard of the phrase “All advice is autobiographical”. There’s a lot of background information which is hidden. I want you to seek the context...
📚 Book Notes: Losing My Virginity
I loved the first half; the second half not so much. The diversity of Branson's businesses and his willingness to try everything once are commendable. Oh...
💯 Organizing AwesomeConf 2020: Motivation and Learnings
If you haven’t read our origin story, you should go check that out first. I’ll wait. This post shares our experience of organizing the second version of...
📚 Book Notes: Antifragile
I really liked the concept of antifragility. Having read The Black Swan, I knew Taleb's style. I find him hard to read but the content is presented in myriad...
✍️ Thank You, Camp NaNoWriMo!
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, where participants attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript during the month of November every year. If...
📚 Book Notes: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It was a very heavy read. Maybe because it’s a weird mix of fiction and non-fiction. Or maybe because I’m simply not ready for philosophy yet. Here are my...
🔑 Consistency is the Key (4/4)
So you have a goal, skin in the game, and a deadline. What now? We have all read about the compound effect, right? Getting 1% better every day for 365 days...
📚 Book Notes: How to Win Friends & Influence People
I read this again after 3-4 years and still found it fresh. I could relate to many situations where I mishandled them in the past. The ideas presented in...
⏰ Timeboxing (3/4)
You know why your manager creates an artificial deadline? Because it works! It’s easy to get stuck on a task and not seem to make much progress. Your...
📚 Book Notes: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
I avoided this book for the longest time, because the title seemed clickbaity! However, it contains some really great guiding principles for life including...
🎮 Skin in the Game (2/4)
How committed are you? So you have set a goal. Nice! But winners and for the lack of a better term, losers have the same goals. So setting the right goal is...
📚 Book Notes: Remote
Pick this up if you need to convince your manager (or even yourself) on the benefits of remote work, which includes access to the best talent, freedom from...
🌚 Shoot for the Moon (1/4)
Setting the right goal is half the battle won. I’m a big-time advocate of learning by doing. I don’t set a consumption goal; I set a creation goal. Here’s my...
📚 Book Notes: Who Owns the Future?
With more and more jobs getting automated, this book posits an economy of micropayments that compensates people for original material they post to the web....